14 days ago i purchased a Harris Hawk something i have been intending to do for many years and have been preparing for for the past twelve months (course's books equipment housing ETC)
Now every thing has gone well but i could do with some ideas in one particular area
The Harris Hawk is a female of the smallest subspecies
currently weighing in at 1 lb 12 3/4 oz
she is flying 25 meters on the creance seems happy and calm in my company in fact she is quite a relaxed hawk
where i am failing in is she very slow to the dummy bunny
she lands close by and will follow it if i drag it she then strikes at the rear end i have yet to persude her to hit the bunny in flight so any hints tips ideas you guys could give would be welcome
Try missing a feed m8 im no expert but i reckon that will do the cure ,i have a book called the harris hawk and it says starve them to get them more keen ,i could be wrong ,
I also have a young Female Harris Hawk, unlike ures she is huge, she flies at 2oz 7lb. I have also had real problems with the dummy bunney. She just didn't like it. I never got her to go for it. But once she saw a real bunny instinct kicked in. I should carry on trying for a while, bring her weight down rapidly as if i goes to slow you might end up making her scream.
i am quite happy with the wait (well at the moment) as responce to fist jump ups and different locations is almost instantanous she just seems cautious with the bunny
Hi, i trained a female last year for a mate of mine she was just the same to start with.so what i dun was not to feed her all day then tie her ration on the bunny and leave it in the mews over night (but tie it down so she cant eat it on the bow) this worked very well and after that we had no problems with her hitting it head end every time.But if you stop and think about it it makes a lot of sence when you think your young hawk as been breed in a avery more than likely the biggest thing its eaten is a quail,and then we toss a great big lump at it and expect it to rip the living daylights out of it.By the way do not try this with redtails,because all thats left in the morning is a pile of fur.
quote: I was going to say that me self about leaving the bunny garnished in meat ,it says it in a book by lee william harris .nice one anyway i hope it works for him .
All the best
johnny
Originally posted by: Chris "Hi, i trained a female last year for a mate of mine she was just the same to start with.so what i dun was not to feed her all day then tie her ration on the bunny and leave it in the mews over night (but tie it down so she cant eat it on the bow) this worked very well and after that we had no problems with her hitting it head end every time.But if you stop and think about it it makes a lot of sence when you think your young hawk as been breed in a avery more than likely the biggest thing its eaten is a quail,and then we toss a great big lump at it and expect it to rip the living daylights out of it.By the way do not try this with redtails,because all thats left in the morning is a pile of fur. "
I've got a young female harris hawk of this year I had the exact same problem. Two things I done to cure it. Put a really decent size piece of meat on it in also do it at the end of her daily exercise so the large piece of meat dosent effect her flying to the fist. Another thing once you have tried the larger piece of meat keep th same siz of meat and drop her weight by a half ounce each day for three days and at the end of the three days put she should be fine thats all I had to do to get mine going for the bunny but after the three days if it hasn't worked for you try taking it out with some elses bird that knows what its doing.
